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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2011
Michael G. Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Pruthviraj Herur Puttaiah, Tomball, TX (US);
Michael G. Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Pruthviraj Herur Puttaiah, Tomball, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method of operating a zone manager of an input/out system includes, in response to a storage device being inserted into a particular storage-device location of the input/output system, determining whether the particular storage-device location and the storage device are assigned to a same server of the input/output system, and assigning the particular storage-device location and storage device to the same server in response to determining that the particular storage-device location and the storage device are not assigned to the same server.